Credit Courtesy: Mike Bach / Mike Bach spent around $8,000 to install a system of pipes and pumps to stop his late father's home in Michigan's Upper Peninsula from flooding. Access to ample water supplies could make Michigan a climate refuge. That scenario is attracting considerable attention in the Great Lakes State. But climate change also is disrupting the earth’s meteorological cycles. Which means more fierce Great Lakes region storms and more floods. The consequences are not evenly distributed. Or, in the words of Jeremy Porter, the head of research and development at First Street Foundation, a Brooklyn-based research group, flooding tells “two different stories.”